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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 15, 1965
Taxation, Why?
It seems that the hardest problem facing college students today, aside from the worry of grades and term papers, is the question of adequate finances.
Tuition increases are to be expected every so often. This is nothing more than just a problem that has to be faced and overcome. And, while it is unwanted, it is necessary for the adequate operation of the University industry.
HOWEVER, if we are to retain some type of standard as a University, our reputation for qualified graduates must remain high. Consequently, it seems imperative that our school remain as attractive as possible to the intellectual cream of the crop that graduate from high school every year. And, let's face it, just because you're from Kansas doesn't make you the most attractive college prospect in the world.
I do not know how many students this will affect.
So I ask, why this absurd personal property taxation ruling?
It could be very few, and all these cars on campus may belong to Kansas residents.
IF MY MEMORY serves me correctly, this is not a state tax and it will also apply to only those communities in Kansas with state colleges.
I cannot think of any practical reason why this ruling was put into effect.
1 seriously don't think this will keep out-ofstate students away from KU, but the inane is not attractive.
If a student has a car, the chances are said car will be registered under his parents' name. Consequently, the parents are going to be the ones paying Juntor's personal property tax on his mode of transportation, as well as the tax they will pay in their home state.
Also, why make a non-resident pay a tax that by all rights should be paid by residents only.
AND, EVEN IF the car is registered in Junior's name the tax will still have to be paid twice.
Granted, such a tax will not approach any exorbitant sum, but, the question remains, why?
ONE SOLUTION REMAINS. The student doesn't register his car and runs the risk of getting caught. In the long run this is not too risky since students are doing and have been doing just that thing.
In the end, is the tax worth it?
Why must students, especially out-of-state students, just because they attend a state university suffer the occasional stupidity that leak down from our state governmental machinery.
— Jim Langford
Wilson, Successful Failure
Woodrow Wilson.
H. L. Mencken termed him the "perfect model of the Christian cad." This impression was given in 1920, after Wilson returned from France, perhaps the most unsuccessful success in the history of American diplomacy.
WILSON RODE INTO office on a tide of electoral votes and a majority of the popular vote. He did not poll as many as his two Republican opponents Taft and Roosevelt, but he held the strong majority. He was also given a Democratic Congress. On this tide, the second Democratic president since the Civil War took office.
Wilson had all the qualifications to make a good president at least intellectually and morally speaking. He was well grounded in his knowledge and understanding of political science and history. He had been a scholar of government which culminated in his classic work Congressional Government—a book, incidently still included in nearly every bibliography of this country's government.
Wilson was a family man—his home was a picture of warmth and contentment. Into the White House he brought his wife and three daughters. The romances and marriages of two of these daughters while he was in office made him closer than ever to his people.
HIS WIFE HAD helped him to an appreciation of the cultural aspects of life. She introduced him to the arts—she was a gifted painter herself, music and good literature.
Seemingly Wilson was the perfect president. Serious, learned, appreciative of his family and friends, and a strong winner in the election.
With these characteristics, one wonders why Mencken could possibly refer to him so cryptically.
Unfortunately, Wilson was full of faults—and these faults were obvious to his observers. It was his faults which led eventually to his failure in Europe following World War I.
COMING FROM a strictly religious family, Wilson was puritanical. His critics say he was puritanical to the point of rejecting many who did not hold similar views as his. He was arrogant—he knew his superior intellectual background and natural genius made him superior to many of his contemporaries, and he showed it through his bull-headed actions. He appeared to many to be self-righteous, however it is doubtful that he was.
It was with these faults and these attributes that Woodrow Wilson went to France to make the peace for the "war to end wars."
It was with these faults and attributes that he boldly outlined his prized Fourteen Points to the Versailles Peace Conference.
He recognized the need for justice and temperance in dealing with the defeated Prussians. Our allies accepted grudgingly his reasonable plan for dealing with the defeated enemy. The parts of his Fourteen Points stand as a perpetual memorial to Wilson's genius for international dealings. To isolationists, however, they stand as a defiant end to America's autonomous position of "avoiding all entangling alliances."
AMERICANS TODAY CAN trace the international dealings we have to the base of Wilson's Fourteen Points.
Following World War I, he called for the evacuation of Russian territory in order to allow them to pursue their own development. He called for the restoration of Belgium (perhaps the first step towards foreign aid ever taken by the United States); and he asked for the restoration of France and the return of the Alsace-Lorraine region, held at that time by the Prussians. Most important of all, however, he asked for a
general association of nations formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
TO WOODROW WILSON this
association, the League of Nations, as it came to be known was the most important consideration of the peace.
Wilson saw his success grow as the peace treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles on June 28, 1919.
But the tarnish started on Wilson's sheen of success. It started with a bit of resentment on the part of the Republican leaders who were highly offended by Wilson's decision to take only four delegates with him to negotiate the peace in France—and none of those delegates were members of the party.
This resentment spread through the Congress and ultimately to the American people, who after recovering from the initial jubilation of their victory, were confused by the radical new internationalist ideas of their president.
WILSON LOST HIS bid in the Congress. The United States remained out of the League of Nations and tried to return to its life behind the fence of isolationism.
— Bobbie Bartelt
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"Now, Y'All Come See Us ___ Hear?"
One of the most interesting places to visit in Wichita is a small hidden club called B C's. From the outside B C's resembles any other smoke-filled dive. It is a small rectangular box with a framed pair of rib bones adjacent to the door knob. At this point, some of those who forget their switch blades may turn coward and run, but you continue will discover a world separate from all others.
Espresso and Poetry
THE ENTRANCE IS narrow. Don't knock the jazz poster off the wall! As you step into the room, pause a moment and take in the decor. From three black walls, short, dark wooden tables project at right angles. The fourth wall is the "concessions stand" draped with yellow burlap. Above the tables and covering plaster cracks in the walls are strangely fascinating paintings that appear as though they had been painted quickly just before you came.
Engulfing the rest of the floor space is a foot high platform, supporting a piano, some stools, and two microphones. At one end of it stand brown mutated driftwood pieces and a carving of an ancient tribal mask of the South Sea islanders. Together, the decorations resemble a magnified collection of keepsakes a neurotic ten-year-old might have picked up.
Now have a seat and notice the people. There are a couple of people in black leotards and Beatle boots, but the majority are very respectable looking people. As the evening wears on, more Beatle boot wearers will arrive as more of the majority respectables take their leave. These respectables are referred to by the Beatle-booters as "tourists, who came to see the beatniks."
THE WAITRESS IS A LITTLE GIRL who really doesn't look like the type to work in this place, but she borrowed the turtle neck sweater and dark stockings because, you imagine, her little sister needs an operation and she is the child's only financial support. The money comes in handy! When she comes to your table, she hands you a menu. This is likely the only time you will pay four bits for two and a half ounces of coffee. You forget you're thrifty, Ben Franklin style heritage and order the coffee.
Settle yourself back, for shortly you will be entertained by a pianist (and I use the term lightly). He concentrates on songs using a majority of loud, bass clef notes, which might have stimulated the neurotic ten-year-old in his driftwood collecting. During this musical interlude, the overhead lights have been turned off and a single light concentrates over the pianist and his instrument. When the lights switch back on, you become aware of how well lighted the room is. You suspect that B C's has to charge four bits for coffee to help balance the electric light bill.
If you are lucky enough to hit the place on a Tuesday or Thursday night, you may be in store for either a poetry reading or a one act play. If you are not lucky, you probably take your leave with the rest of the tourists after that first coffee.
— Irvana Keagy
BOOK REVIEWS
WEBSTER'S NEW SCHOOL AND OFFICE DICTIONARY (Crest, 75 cents)—It's difficult to review the plot of this book, but there are a lot of interesting words. Arranged alphabetically, too. The type face is big enough so that it won't be a problem for the weak-eyed, and there are lots of miscellaneous things, like synonyms and antonyms, names of the presidents, forms of address, weights and measures, a perpetual calendar, signs and symbols, legal holidays, national parks, latest census figures. All in all, a handy book to have on your desk.
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